The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-03

enough for his own use. But Mrs. Reddici
would use his water; she claimed II hel
right; that the rain fell on her house, and
the barrel stood On her land but Mr.. Lock
wood owned the barrel, and after consider
able wrangling they finally compromised
after the fashion of the government In those
DAYS, and were tried friends ever after
wards
THE PLACES OF BUSINESS,
And the homes of some of the early busi
ness men Of Ottawa, Mr.. Lockwood re-
members TO have been as follows; The
FREE TRADER was up stairs over Basnett s
store, In the Reddlck block; the COnStitu-
ttonaltSt over some store near John Man.
ley's, south of the court house. Com
mencing at the northwest corner Of La
Sale and Madison streets, where Lutz Il
Briggs drug store Is, was Jerry Woods
meat market In small frame. His
slaughter house was on 1.-The Point" east of
Fox river. Along the north side of court
house square were few wooden build.
ings. Mr.. Bastien had a saloon across the
alley, where John Feeney's shoe store is;
east was shop occupied by Bailey & Con.
nelly, fashionable tailors" A colored man
had barber shop where Rising makes
cigars; near by was Leshy's shoe store,
and on the corner Joe Halls blacksmith
shop. On the Clifton hotel corner was
Flick's butcher shop. He afterwards built
the Exchange" across the way James
Monroe had small hotel (the Union
House, where Whites Is now. Jim was
hard up in early days, for It Is said when a
traveller arrived the landlord was frequently
obliged TO borrow money OF him to run the
house during his stay! The city hotel
stood where is Glover Il Cooks, now the
Gedney block. Mr.. Lockwood remembers
to have seen Birch, one of the famous
"bandits OF the prairies," who helped to
rob jeremiah Strawn at Hennepin and to
kill Col. Davenport at Rock Island, brought
and lodged, securely bound in chains and
irons, and guarded by twelve men. G. L..
Thompsons drug store was near, and then
came Morse & Conley's wet grocery. Ad-
joining this was Reddick's block, the north
store occupied by Thomas Basnett, the
middle one by T. L. Boughton, and after
wards by himself, and the south end by j..
G. Nattinger. Across the ally, where Nc
Quade holds forth, was A. A. Fishers shoe
shop; next, about where Mitch is, was
Bob Montgomery's store and saloon ;
next Kowins drug store, and from that to
the corner the old Mansion House. Com.
mencing at Stiefels corner was hardware
store, next Piergue's bakery. Walker Il
HickliDg's store, David Walkers drug
store, Sanger & Sons store, John Manley's
hardware house. j. & T.. Armour, and
Vim. True & Sons filed out the south side,
but not exactly In the order named.
On the west side of the square was j. A.
Shuler's tailor shop, where Gillen Is. Dave
Sangers dwelling, yellow frame, stood
where Riale's grocery stands. North, about
we're Roberts Bros. are, Dan Murphy's
store stood, and few other frames made
up the remainder of the square to Madison
street. Cushman s. Gridley had store
where Roses gun shop stands.
WHERE THEY LIVED.
Mr.. Cushman lived In small frame
house where VIM. Degens meat market
stands. 1t was subsequently moved away,
and Is now used as the Times office. Abe
Hoes dwelling stood where Franks cloth
ing house is located NJ. H. Swift resided
In small wooden house where Baldwin &
Prlseler's marble works stand; N. f. Hol-
lister, then justice Of the peace, lived In
house on the ground occupied by the
county jail. Henry Hurlbut, afterwards
sheriff, was next south, and DIR. Schermer.
horns house stood on the lot now covered
by the Presbyterian church. ice Hall
lived next to his shop; Judge Cotton on the
lot where DR.. Stout resides, and j. O.
Glover In very humble little frame on the
ground where Thos. McKinlay lives. Judge
Dickey built shanty on the north bluff.
which he called his "Kentucky Home"
He added an addition to 1t every year, or
tore down one; was always fixing 1t, and
never got II completed to suit him! VIM.
Palmer built wagon shop on the corner
south of the Presbyterian church. William
True, Boston man of taste and style,
built brick residence where the "Geiger
house, afterwards stood and which has
borne half dozen of other names since
then. Downey Buchanan lived north of
the present postoffice. E. L. Waterman,
afterwards sheriff, had his dwelling where
now stands the Hess Il Driefus's or ~ MON
block" Lorenzo Leland's house was on
La Sale street, north of Fiske & Beem's
store; John Hise's house was afterwards
owned by Peter Russell, the furniture
dealer.
HIS MARRIAGE.
Arthur Lockwood, Eco, and Miss Jose.